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YearLDThemeGameDivisionRankOvFuInTh
201945Start with nothingNitchs the tankjam9582.963.003.172.71

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Comments by AlphaDen

LD45 — Start with nothing

Hungry Holly by Avon 2019-10-08T16:42:19Z

The graphics looks great.

You found nothing. by atraxgames 2019-10-09T17:27:56Z

Great innovation there. It made me read for a while. You can add more humor to it. Then it will make more people to stay and read. Over all a great game but i'm not sure if it fits the theme.

Warden of Void by kessutinnu 2019-10-11T16:15:22Z

Cool concept but a slightly complex gameplay. It reminds me of the good old days;)

Alcindor the Alchemist by cogcomp 2019-10-12T12:22:39Z

As @vinnienovido mentioned it is somewhat difficult to understand the video on how to play help me a little. Great concept. The are style reminds me of contra.

Geary Grinder by Abregado 2019-10-08T17:08:15Z

The blueprint style gameplay looks and feels great. But as @codeforjoycaro mentioned the game is slow pased and it is difficult to sit throught the full puzzle.

Gravity Fusion by Steffo 2019-10-08T15:44:52Z

The game is addictive but it starts very slow so it feels boring. But after sometime it gets interesting. You could add a video or a gif so that we can get a view of your gameplay.

Entangled by andre-606 2019-10-09T17:35:56Z

as @gamefive suggested the control is uncomfortale. You could have given arrow keys as input too. The graphics is amazing and the gameplay is good. Since i'm not used to this control i cannot play the game for longer period of time sice the controls are confusing or hardder to get used to initially.

Entangled by andre-606 2019-10-10T01:48:42Z

@andre-606 yes i dont know we can use mouse. Will give it a try next time with the mouse :)

Game Design Simulator 98 by radmars 2019-10-09T15:54:24Z

If we try to make a scary game. The pictures are really really scary. I really enjoyed this game. Initially it starts slow of at a not so good phase but after sometime this becomes reaally good. Great game-play. Great effort.

Sugarship by Firebender 2019-10-12T12:23:33Z

Amazing graphics. Liked the game a lot. Amazing mechanics. Loved it.

Big Tomato by Jakob Willforss 2019-10-08T16:43:58Z

Pixel art work looks great. I personally like the peoples.

Shi no ganbo by Simon Rahnasto 2019-10-10T17:43:57Z

Great game with a story. I love the powerups and the gradual increase in pase. But i feel like initially the enemies are too difficult. Sometimes it is difficult distinguish between the enemies and the background.

Free Will by Baski 2019-10-08T16:02:13Z

Amazing game. Excellint graphics. This game is addictive and fun to play. But the graphics looks extremely good.

Merge 'em Wars by Call_me_Nutty 2019-10-09T17:47:17Z

The retro look is great. Great audio BTW. I can recollected 90's games when i play this game(With audio obivously) :)

Start with Muffin by Sibi 2019-10-12T12:16:45Z

Amazing character design and graphics. The voices are also great. Best theme based game so far :)

Space Scavenger by Mabry 2019-10-10T17:57:03Z

Great gameplay and innovative idea. The graphics looks good, but the background picture/graphics can be improved. a pointes towards the next object would be an great update too.

Voidborn by Shelvid 2019-10-11T02:16:50Z

We cannot believe that this game was made in 3 days time. Unbelievable. Great work. Then the art style of this game looks pretty cool. I love the gameplay.

Nepton by Juutis 2019-10-09T16:49:56Z

I really love this game. The grapics also looks great. Great job.

The Little Adventure for Slime by mimusangel 2019-10-08T16:07:29Z

The mchanism looks great, satisfying and addictive and the game looks amazing. Really cannot believe that you guys managed to make such a great game in the given time. Great job you guys.

The Little Adventure for Slime by mimusangel 2019-10-08T16:36:20Z

@mimusangel I'm not saying i don't believe you. I'm just saying that i got stunned by your work.

The Little Adventure for Slime by mimusangel 2019-10-08T17:04:01Z

Who cares about your language. Your game is great and thats what really matters ;)

The Firebrand by selkkie 2019-10-11T16:36:17Z

Great gamplay and amazing art work. You also had a great audio and all in one package. When i played this game at night, I could picture myself being at that situation. Great concept BTW. Good work.

Reutemeteut (web) by croewens 2019-10-12T12:24:40Z

Great game. Simple and neat. But i dont know how it fits the theme. But we could spend hours playing it. Nice work

Spaceshipless by PadenPierry 2019-10-08T16:30:21Z

A feedback as if we hit the enemy or not and if we take hit would be a nice update.

Red Metal Gatherer by Yohsk13 2019-10-08T15:59:38Z

Great gameplay and here are minute details in this game that we could easily ignore. It requires a dedicated player to enjoy this game. But it starts really slow and right click would be nice.

Little Nothing Adventure by Siarhei Pilat 2019-10-09T17:42:33Z

I want so high that the screen had nothing. The game controls is a bit too complex. It was difficult to get used to. The gameover screen looks good.

Roll a Ball Genesis by jsloth 2019-10-09T15:47:56Z

Innovative gameplay. I haven't played a game like this before. The humor part in this game is also good. I really enjoyed the game. But initially if struggled since i dont know that i will get new set of instruction, story by repeatedly typing help in command.

VaultSmith by DigitalLimestone 2019-10-10T17:54:22Z

The game is too difficult. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the player, enemy and the background. The music shounds great. It reminds me of "Dangerous Dave" game.

The path of Fireflies by Omickron 2019-10-08T15:38:44Z

This a very cool concept and great graphics BTW. But the control is a bit too complex to get used to.

Shoot it all by Symphonia 2019-10-08T15:53:18Z

You could have added a video of the gameplay cause it is a bit diffcult to understand in the first time. In your description you have mentioned red triangle but in game we get hit by red squares. I don't know if this is intentional.

0-Skies : A Minute's Adventure by Karanveer 2019-10-12T12:13:37Z

Amazing graphics. Very well executed. But the web version is laggy.

Palette of the World by Black Flag 2019-10-09T17:03:56Z

The link works fine now. I did play this game. It seems a bit difficult to understand but the graphics looks cool and the player movement feels great.

Dead Again by Joe Bustamante 2019-10-11T02:19:17Z

I did like the characters and the game seems interesting. You can increase the player size(With different graphics ofcourse) and speed up the game a little bit. So that it will make more people to stay.

The Last Word by stasm 2019-10-09T17:25:35Z

Great graphics and innovative idea. Initially i struggled to find that wwe need to press and hold the key(Keyboard), after finding tha it was great.

UPgrade by honzapat 2019-10-10T17:46:19Z

Great game to time pass and relax. You can add some extra humor to the game. An audio of an narrator would be a great update too.

Ships, Sharks and Shanties by Grangerer 2019-10-10T18:02:39Z

Cool idea but it seems a bit laggy in the web version. Great bg music. nice work

Find the Controls by NunoRibeiro 2019-10-11T15:57:07Z

The gameplay is great. But personally i think that the background is make us to feel dissy/distracted/difficult to concentrate. A simple and plain bg would do better(personal opinion).

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-08T16:08:56Z

Will try to increase the playtime and will reduce the difficulty of the game in the upcomming builds.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-08T16:34:59Z

@quoc If i had seen this game before the jam. I would have made the game's graphics much better.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-08T16:39:16Z

@whatnamegames Thanks for the feedback. We will update the sound in the upcomming builds.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-08T17:00:03Z

Thank you for your feedbback. We will polish the game, make it fun and addictive, will publish as an iphone game so stay tuned.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-08T17:01:38Z

@sergio1811 Sorry forgot to mention you :)

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-09T08:21:42Z

Thanks for the review. We will slow it down a bit. I did use delta time. But we didn't have time to design the main menu so we didn't have one. This is our first jam so our time management skill was poor. So it felt like if happened all of a sudden. We agree and we will work on it. The theme is that the tank Nitchs(our player) has nothing offensive or defensive. We need to work on purchase item. Which will help him upgrade the tank. This will help to increase the tank's defense.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-09T15:38:17Z

@sneakyfox Thanks for the replay. We will definitly work on that.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-09T17:15:39Z

@optus23 We are working on that. We thought of slowing the time and speeding up the player when the bullet is near the player to give him a nice chance to escape. Plus we thought of giving the player 3 seconds before the enemy tank starts shooting, so that the player can go to a save/convinient place so that it will be advantage for him. Further we are also thinking about adding more graphic elements, blasts, camera shakes,etc. Sos stay tuned :)

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-09T17:17:18Z

@salamander First of all i would like to thank you for your feedback. Yes we do understand and we are working on it to update evething to make the game feel great. So stay tuned for the upcomming updates. Thankss for the support.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-09T17:18:47Z

@huntrox great fedback. ("my feedback missiles can destroy each other if they collide and soundfx") Point noted. ("at level 3 i destroyed all the tanks but nothing happen") We just saw the bug. Thanks for informing.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-10T01:49:38Z

@pedro-rosa thanks for the feedback :)

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-11T01:38:40Z

@goodzilla Thanks for the review and sorry about the bug we will fix it in our next build. We do think that the missile seems to be luck so we are.planning on some improvements like slowing the time down when the missile is near us and speeding up the player a little bit so that it will be easy to evade and give a 3 seconds head start before the enemy tank starts shooting to get to be better place.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-11T01:40:14Z

@douwe-ravers Thanks for the feedback. Will make it a bit easy so that it will be a casual game :)

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-11T01:42:26Z

@sibi Thanks for the review. As we have mentioned there is a bug which is preventing the players from going beyond level 3 will work on it. This will be a major update on our side including many changes so it is taking a bit more time. Sorry about that.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-11T01:46:11Z

@siarhei-pilat Great point never thought about that. We will do something about that. Like making the trees transparent when the missile is behind them making the missiles display abouv the trees. Thanks for the reply.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-11T01:47:48Z

@koge Yes, we do understand. We are thinking about giving 3 seconds buffer time when the game starts before the tanks will start shooting missiles so that the player can go to a better position to counter those missiles.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-11T01:52:31Z

@joeshanahan Thanks for the idea. We where thinking about the same. And for doudging the bullet we thought of slowing the time down when the bullte is near us and giving a small boost to the player so that he can escape. We wanted to make a casual mobile game so we want the game with as simple controls as possible which is easy to understand by seeing a screenshot that's where it got complicated. We will definitely improve with the update and thanks for the review.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-11T16:00:48Z

@shelvid Thanks for such an elaborate review of our game.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-11T16:09:24Z

@wheybags Seriously you took the words right out of my heart. This was our first gamejam and thought of doing something great/ which was not done by others/me(especially). So we setteled with this round planet. You could argue that we got inspired from the video @quoc mentioned. But if we did see that before the jam it would made our work much easier or we would have improved our graphics and animation atleast. and for those words. We serously thought of giving up when we got stuch with following missile and tank on a round sphere since non of the unity defaults would work and we should come up with our own solution. We tried our best. With review like yours we can now feel somewhat proud of our work.

And for collisions Tank to tank collision is ignored because of the shpere cause we cannot set default gravity nor how the tank should react depending upon its posision on the sphere. This at that time was too complex to think at that time. We will try to think about to again and come with a good solution(We hope).

We thought of adding reaction animation when the environment objects(rocks, trees, etc) are hit with bullet/tanks.

@wheybags Special thanks for the advice.(For people having trouble with the game running too fast: Switching my desktop resolution from 4k to 1080p seems to make it run properly. I tried this since I wanted to record the game running too fast using OBS, but recording with OBS in 4k slows the game down to a proper level as well :p)

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-11T16:11:18Z

@kira45 Thanks for the review. We are working on that and we will try to balance our game better in the upcomming builds.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-12T11:00:44Z

@franciszek-pyrc thanks for the review. Will reduce the difficulty.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-12T14:14:38Z

@croewens Thanks for the review. We did hear that before.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-12T14:15:02Z

@enzo-b Thanks for the review. Will work towards balancing the game.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-12T14:16:05Z

@alexfsmirnov Thanks for the review. We will work on the collision part. But we think from the review the game is already pretty difficult ;)

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-12T14:16:32Z

@justuspan Thanks for the review. We will reduce the difficulty of the game.

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-12T20:52:16Z

@fictions Thanks for the review. Actually there is a bug at leve 3 which needs to be fixed. Due to other works the bug fix process is delayed. Apologies!!

Nitchs the tank by AlphaDen 2019-10-29T03:21:07Z

@nunoribeiro Thanks for the review.

Colour Shot by HumphreysMedia 2019-10-08T16:20:58Z

Visually it looks mesmerizing. The gameplay is also good. as @cobear25 mentioned if audio was added it would be a great bonus for us.

!Another Chance by aleksandar2901 2019-10-10T17:49:34Z

Great idea. I love how those character talked. It was innovative. Great work you guys.

Fit the Sticky by Leonard Graf 2019-10-08T16:05:21Z

Great game. This game looks similar to voodoo's and lion studio's game combined. But cannot believe that you guys managed to make this game in the given time.

factorAway by TheJebForge 2019-10-08T16:23:39Z

The game is a bit complex but if we get used to it then we will stay with the game for hours. Great gameplay. As @bredera mentioned the wait is a bit too long.

DREAMS by Ferdi 2019-10-08T16:13:54Z

The world looks great. Amazing innovation. The idea is great and was executed wonderfully.

Nothing About Stage by nikita-lozhkin 2019-10-08T16:32:14Z

Great innovation you guys. But dont know why the game got stuck at level 1.

Nothing About Stage by nikita-lozhkin 2019-10-08T17:01:58Z

@nikita-lozhkin Great.

Escape Room by superunknown 2019-10-11T17:00:18Z

Nice idea. But it sometimes leads to repeated button presses(right and up or left and down). But over all and nice game to think and pass time.

Shadow Monster by adhi1400 2019-10-09T15:40:48Z

+1. The link didn't work :(

Nothing Found a Ludum Dare 45 game by despdair 2019-10-08T16:28:38Z

I dont know if its just me but i feel a bit scared when i play this game.

Nothing Found a Ludum Dare 45 game by despdair 2019-10-08T17:03:02Z

@tarfield Actually that buggy movement sometimes makes us even more scared.

Return The Stars by BanJaxe 2019-10-11T17:02:10Z

Great job on graphics, visuals and sound track. I really calms us. Would like and update with the bug fixes.

SlimeySlime by WhatNameGames 2019-10-08T16:18:43Z

The gameplay looks retro and great. We loved the game. It would be great if you could add more levels.